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Tail of the Blue Bird By Nii Ayikwei Parkes. 9780224085748
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- Tail of the Blue Bird
- ISBN
- 9780224085748
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Tail of the Blue Bird
- Item Height
- 214mm
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 135mm
- Item Weight
- 198g
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains; possibly human, definitely 'evil'; in a vanished man's hut brings the modern world into the village in the form of Kayo; a young forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries. But as events in the village become more and more incomprehensible, Kayo and his sidekick, Constable Garba, find that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task in hand. Strange boys wandering in the forest, ghostly music in the night and a flock of birds that come from far away to fill the desolate hut with discarded feathers take the newcomers into a world where, in the unknown, they discover a higher truth that leaves scientific explanations far behind. Tail of the Bluebird is a story of the mystical heart of Africa, of the clash and clasp between old and new worlds. Lyrically beautiful, at once uncanny and heart-warmingly human, this is a story that
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9780224085748
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Book Title
Tail of the Blue Bird
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
176 Pages
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214mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
198g
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United Kingdom
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